Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land

7 best books like Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land (Amy Irvine): The Empathy Exams, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, The Chronology of Water, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help, Dressing, Chlorine Gardens, One Dirty Tree

The Empathy Exams

Author	Leslie Jamison
ISBN	1555976719

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection; winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.

Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison’s visceral and...

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Author	Ocean Vuong
ISBN	0525562028

Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's...

The Chronology of Water

Author	Lidia Yuknavitch
ISBN	0979018838

This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces...

The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

Author	Amanda Palmer
ISBN	1455581089

Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience to support...

Dressing

Author	Michael DeForge
ISBN	1927668220

Michael DeForge makes comics like no one else. This collection of the cartoonist's mini-comics, zines, anthology work, and more, is a follow up to the award-winning Very Casual, and shows the artist at the height of his occasionally fever-induced powers.

A prolific artist who is constantly...

Chlorine Gardens

Author

Keiler Roberts

Keiler Roberts doesn’t do slice of life; she gives you the whole pie.

Dealing with pregnancy, child-rearing, art-making, mental illness, and an MS diagnosis, the parts of Chlorine Gardens’ sum sound heavy, but Keiler Roberts’ gift is the deft drollness in which she presents life’s...

One Dirty Tree

Author	Noah Van Sciver
ISBN	1941250270

In Noah Van Sciver’s new funny and heartfelt memoir, he is haunted by memories of growing up in a big, poor, Mormon family.

Noah Van Sciver is haunted by the house at 133 ____ Street, or as his brothers rechristened it “One Dirty Tree.” This sprawling dilapidated New Jersey house was his...